Dr Orly Razgour
@orlyrazgour.bsky.social
Global Change Genetics & Genomics research | Associate Professor in Global Change Ecology @exeter.ac.uk | Fellow of the British Ecological Society | Editor in Chief Diversity and Distributions | Chair BES Climate Change Group 🦇 🌍 🧬 🏳️🌈
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Dr Orly Razgour
@orlyrazgour.bsky.social
· Sep 15
🌿 We’re celebrating our first round of BES Fellows!
20 ecologists recognised for excellence in research, teaching & the application of ecology.
👇 Meet them:
20 ecologists recognised for excellence in research, teaching & the application of ecology.
👇 Meet them:
Meet our first round of BES Fellows - British Ecological Society
We are delighted to announce the first round of BES Fellows, recognising outstanding contributions to ecology across research, teaching, and its application within our international community.
f.mtr.cool
Honoured to have been awarded a Fellowship of the British Ecological Society, joining such an impressive group of ecologists!
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@britishecologicalsociety.org
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Join us for our ECR coffee morning this Friday! ☕️
Come along to network and chat all things #climatechange with students and researchers alike. 🌍
We’re also looking for people to present, so drop Emily or Wongibe an email if you’re interested!
Link to register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Come along to network and chat all things #climatechange with students and researchers alike. 🌍
We’re also looking for people to present, so drop Emily or Wongibe an email if you’re interested!
Link to register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Join us for our ECR coffee morning this Friday! ☕️
Come along to network and chat all things #climatechange with students and researchers alike. 🌍
We’re also looking for people to present, so drop Emily or Wongibe an email if you’re interested!
Link to register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Come along to network and chat all things #climatechange with students and researchers alike. 🌍
We’re also looking for people to present, so drop Emily or Wongibe an email if you’re interested!
Link to register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
On the need for predictive models in conservation ⬇️
Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery.
Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action.
👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS
Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action.
👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS
October 9, 2025 at 5:56 AM
On the need for predictive models in conservation ⬇️
Lots of congratulations to @jackhooker.bsky.social for winning the Vincent Weir Award for contribution to bat conservation and research! 🦇
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/09...
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/09...
Jack Hooker wins Vincent Weir Award - News - Bat Conservation Trust
Bat researcher Jack Hooker has just won the Vincent Weir award for his work in three vital areas of bat conservation.
www.bats.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Lots of congratulations to @jackhooker.bsky.social for winning the Vincent Weir Award for contribution to bat conservation and research! 🦇
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/09...
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/09...
Eating meat and livestock production is the leading sources of emissions from agriculture. So why is it under-reported? #ClimateCrisis 🌱🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Eating meat and livestock production is the leading sources of emissions from agriculture. So why is it under-reported? #ClimateCrisis 🌱🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Definitely a must read for conservation biologists! Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace’s legacy
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
September 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Definitely a must read for conservation biologists! Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace’s legacy
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
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Read our latest blog post by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social, whose research reveals how temperature and rainfall affect the body size of European bats. 🦇
Laura offers insights into their resilience, vulnerability, and what it means for conservation in a warming world. 🌍
bit.ly/3GsQunp
Laura offers insights into their resilience, vulnerability, and what it means for conservation in a warming world. 🌍
bit.ly/3GsQunp
How is bat size affected by climate?
Author: Laura Paltrinieri, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid Global environmental change is one of the greatest challenges facing biodiversity. Rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patt…
besclimatechange.wordpress.com
July 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Read our latest blog post by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social, whose research reveals how temperature and rainfall affect the body size of European bats. 🦇
Laura offers insights into their resilience, vulnerability, and what it means for conservation in a warming world. 🌍
bit.ly/3GsQunp
Laura offers insights into their resilience, vulnerability, and what it means for conservation in a warming world. 🌍
bit.ly/3GsQunp
Honoured to have been awarded a Fellowship of the British Ecological Society, joining such an impressive group of ecologists!
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@britishecologicalsociety.org
🌿 We’re celebrating our first round of BES Fellows!
20 ecologists recognised for excellence in research, teaching & the application of ecology.
👇 Meet them:
20 ecologists recognised for excellence in research, teaching & the application of ecology.
👇 Meet them:
Meet our first round of BES Fellows - British Ecological Society
We are delighted to announce the first round of BES Fellows, recognising outstanding contributions to ecology across research, teaching, and its application within our international community.
f.mtr.cool
September 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Honoured to have been awarded a Fellowship of the British Ecological Society, joining such an impressive group of ecologists!
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@britishecologicalsociety.org
Thanks @batconservation.bsky.social !
🦇 A huge congratulations to our trustee @orlyrazgour.bsky.social for her @britishecologicalsociety.org Fellowship which recognises outstanding contributions to ecology across research, teaching, and its application within the international community: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/meet...
September 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Thanks @batconservation.bsky.social !
In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
July 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Ever wondered how morphology is affected by climate? Our new paper in Ecography shows sex-specific shifts in body size of European #bats in response to temperature & rainfall across space, but no clear temporal changes due to high variability 🌍🌐🧪
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The effects of climate on bat morphology across space and time
According to Bergmann's and Allen's rules, climate change may drive morphological shifts in species, affecting body size and appendage length. These rules predict that species in colder climates tend...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Ever wondered how morphology is affected by climate? Our new paper in Ecography shows sex-specific shifts in body size of European #bats in response to temperature & rainfall across space, but no clear temporal changes due to high variability 🌍🌐🧪
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION 🚨
We are now accepting abstracts until July 15th, so get one in while there is still time!
Sign up below 👇
We are now accepting abstracts until July 15th, so get one in while there is still time!
Sign up below 👇
🌿 Calling all friends in climate and biodiversity 🌿
We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025!
Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges.
Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...
👀 🫵 🔜
We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025!
Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges.
Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...
👀 🫵 🔜
Climate Change and Biodiversity: BES Climate Change SIG Annual Meeting 2025
The first in-person annual meeting of the British Ecological Society Climate Change Ecology Group.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION 🚨
We are now accepting abstracts until July 15th, so get one in while there is still time!
Sign up below 👇
We are now accepting abstracts until July 15th, so get one in while there is still time!
Sign up below 👇
Great opportunity for #PGR / #PhD to join the British Ecological Society Climate Change Ecology Group committee. DM me if you want to chat about the role ⚠️⚠️⚠️🌍
🌿Climate Change Ecology Group - Postgraduate Researcher Representative
🗓️Deadline: 31 July
We are looking for two PGR/PhD student reps, who can shape events, support early career researchers, and contribute to our podcast, blog and community activities.
Apply 👉
🗓️Deadline: 31 July
We are looking for two PGR/PhD student reps, who can shape events, support early career researchers, and contribute to our podcast, blog and community activities.
Apply 👉
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July 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Researching impacts of climate change on biodiversity? Submit an abstract and register to join the British Ecological Society Climate Change Group hybrid meeting on 18th Sep 2025.
Abstract submission deadline 7th July 🌍
Abstract submission deadline 7th July 🌍
🌿 Calling all friends in climate and biodiversity 🌿
We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025!
Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges.
Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...
👀 🫵 🔜
We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025!
Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges.
Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...
👀 🫵 🔜
Climate Change and Biodiversity: BES Climate Change SIG Annual Meeting 2025
The first in-person annual meeting of the British Ecological Society Climate Change Ecology Group.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Researching impacts of climate change on biodiversity? Submit an abstract and register to join the British Ecological Society Climate Change Group hybrid meeting on 18th Sep 2025.
Abstract submission deadline 7th July 🌍
Abstract submission deadline 7th July 🌍
So true, not only for academia but also for the conservation/environment sector. Expectations to gain experience through volunteering and unpaid work experience, short term contracts and need to move every few years makes it challenging to stay and succeed if you don’t come from money.
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
journals.plos.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
So true, not only for academia but also for the conservation/environment sector. Expectations to gain experience through volunteering and unpaid work experience, short term contracts and need to move every few years makes it challenging to stay and succeed if you don’t come from money.
New paper out on Adaptive introgression as an evolutionary force, led by former PhD Pedro Horta, with Hugo Rebelo & Javier Juste.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Adaptive Introgression as an Evolutionary Force: A Meta‐Analysis of Knowledge Trends
There is growing evidence for the role of introgressive hybridization in promoting species adaptation (i.e., adaptive introgression) owing to increasing genomic studies on a diversity of taxa over th....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
New paper out on Adaptive introgression as an evolutionary force, led by former PhD Pedro Horta, with Hugo Rebelo & Javier Juste.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Job Alert! 🚨🚨🚨
3 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Ecology at the University of Montana to work with Erin Languth, Casey Day and me on the Bat-Fungi Disease & Evolution project, focusing on white nose syndrome in North American #bats 🦇🦠
To apply: apply.interfolio.com/169120
3 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Ecology at the University of Montana to work with Erin Languth, Casey Day and me on the Bat-Fungi Disease & Evolution project, focusing on white nose syndrome in North American #bats 🦇🦠
To apply: apply.interfolio.com/169120
June 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Job Alert! 🚨🚨🚨
3 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Ecology at the University of Montana to work with Erin Languth, Casey Day and me on the Bat-Fungi Disease & Evolution project, focusing on white nose syndrome in North American #bats 🦇🦠
To apply: apply.interfolio.com/169120
3 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Ecology at the University of Montana to work with Erin Languth, Casey Day and me on the Bat-Fungi Disease & Evolution project, focusing on white nose syndrome in North American #bats 🦇🦠
To apply: apply.interfolio.com/169120
Reposted by Dr Orly Razgour
June 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Reposted by Dr Orly Razgour
🌿 Calling all friends in climate and biodiversity 🌿
We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025!
Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges.
Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...
👀 🫵 🔜
We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025!
Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges.
Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...
👀 🫵 🔜
Climate Change and Biodiversity: BES Climate Change SIG Annual Meeting 2025
The first in-person annual meeting of the British Ecological Society Climate Change Ecology Group.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🌿 Calling all friends in climate and biodiversity 🌿
We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025!
Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges.
Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...
👀 🫵 🔜
We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025!
Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges.
Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...
👀 🫵 🔜
Call for abstracts now open for the British Ecological Society Climate Change group annual meeting on #ClimateChange and Biodiversity - 1 day hybrid event on 18th Sep. Come and join us for talks, policy panel, discussions and networking ⬇️
🚨 Abstracts open! 🚨
Join the BES Climate Change Ecology Group Annual Meeting on 18 Sept!
📍 Hybrid event (London + online)
🌍 Current research developments, policy challenges, and networking.
📆 Deadline: 7 July
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...
Or scan to submit an abstract!
Join the BES Climate Change Ecology Group Annual Meeting on 18 Sept!
📍 Hybrid event (London + online)
🌍 Current research developments, policy challenges, and networking.
📆 Deadline: 7 July
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...
Or scan to submit an abstract!
June 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Call for abstracts now open for the British Ecological Society Climate Change group annual meeting on #ClimateChange and Biodiversity - 1 day hybrid event on 18th Sep. Come and join us for talks, policy panel, discussions and networking ⬇️
How far can a tiny bat fly? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This tiny Australian bat is the size of a matchbox. But it flies up to 150km a night in search of food
Until now, little was known about foraging flights of critically endangered southern bent-wing bats, which roost in caves
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
How far can a tiny bat fly? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Only 1 day left to apply for this fully funded PhD studentship, working closely with conservation managers to study moorland bird behaviour, diet and reproductive success.
Application deadline 14th May! ⚠️⚠️⚠️
Application deadline 14th May! ⚠️⚠️⚠️
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Come to do a PhD with Charles Tyler, Anke Lange & me @exeter.ac.uk on Assessing managed moorlands as breeding areas for waders & Merlin. Fully funded. In partnership with Moorland Conservation Trust, researching nesting behaviour, breeding success and diet 🐦🪺🧬
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
May 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Only 1 day left to apply for this fully funded PhD studentship, working closely with conservation managers to study moorland bird behaviour, diet and reproductive success.
Application deadline 14th May! ⚠️⚠️⚠️
Application deadline 14th May! ⚠️⚠️⚠️
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development - STOP 🛑 ✋ the new planning and infrastructure bill to protect biodiversity and threatened species!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development - STOP 🛑 ✋ the new planning and infrastructure bill to protect biodiversity and threatened species!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Come to do a PhD with Charles Tyler, Anke Lange & me @exeter.ac.uk on Assessing managed moorlands as breeding areas for waders & Merlin. Fully funded. In partnership with Moorland Conservation Trust, researching nesting behaviour, breeding success and diet 🐦🪺🧬
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
⚠️⚠️⚠️ Come to do a PhD with Charles Tyler, Anke Lange & me @exeter.ac.uk on Assessing managed moorlands as breeding areas for waders & Merlin. Fully funded. In partnership with Moorland Conservation Trust, researching nesting behaviour, breeding success and diet 🐦🪺🧬
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Reposted by Dr Orly Razgour
🦇Our Big Give #GreenMatchFund campaign 'Strengthening the grassroots of bat conservation' is now live! Every donation we receive up to £5K, from 22-29 April, will be doubled! This is a great opportunity to raise £10,000 for bat conservation. Donate & share widely: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
April 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🦇Our Big Give #GreenMatchFund campaign 'Strengthening the grassroots of bat conservation' is now live! Every donation we receive up to £5K, from 22-29 April, will be doubled! This is a great opportunity to raise £10,000 for bat conservation. Donate & share widely: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Reposted by Dr Orly Razgour
New OA 🦇 Research 📄
Well done Penelope, @orlyrazgour.bsky.social and many others!
Changes in community composition and functional diversity of European bats under climate change
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Well done Penelope, @orlyrazgour.bsky.social and many others!
Changes in community composition and functional diversity of European bats under climate change
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Changes in community composition and functional diversity of European bats under climate change
Climate change is predicted to drive geographical range shifts that will result in changes in species diversity and functional composition and have potential repercussions for ecosystem functioning. ...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
New OA 🦇 Research 📄
Well done Penelope, @orlyrazgour.bsky.social and many others!
Changes in community composition and functional diversity of European bats under climate change
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Well done Penelope, @orlyrazgour.bsky.social and many others!
Changes in community composition and functional diversity of European bats under climate change
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...